Anyway I don't get on with most American sitcoms (I find some of them feel like they're trying too hard) but in my opinion the best one out there is Workaholics.

Which I don't believe has ever been shown over here, despite it being a Comedy Central series (Comedy Central have a UK channel). You can watch it on alluc.org and a bunch of other streaming sites though.

darkmorgado wrote:
SP since they disappeared up their own arse years ago

I've watched every South Park episode there is and I've yet to see it do that.

Theyve been like it for years. They used to take the piss out of everything equally but now they seem to have a particular agenda aginst the perceived dangers of liberal tolerance and its potential to see genuinely damaging behaviour given a free pass in the whole "pc gone mad!" Line that the the daily mail is famous for peddling.

Which is fine, as long as that doesn't outweigh taking the piss out of other extremes too. Sadly they seem to focus on liberalism these days, and the humour all comes from the slippery slope argument which gets old fast even when its being taken to ridiculous extremes.

I stopped actively watching it years ago. It's just lazy these days and plays on whatever fashionable to take the piss out of. Case in point: scientology pisstakes. They have a hard on for it, and the frequency and predictable ways that they mock it smacks more of doing it because it is fashionable to do it these days rather than ridiculing the actual specifics of it to make a point about why it could be considered a load of manipulative pyramid scheme bullshit instead of just a wacky belief system based around alien lifeforms and strange pregnancy rituals and psychobabble.

Just makes it feel like they are pushing a political agenda now more than taking the piss out of everything equally. But I guess thats what happensnwhen youve been around so long youve become mainstream. People stop being shocked and start thinking you're just quaint so you feel like you need to keep pushing harder and harder to offend and shock peple whilst also appealing to their inner prejudices.

I stopped actively watching it years ago. It's just lazy these days and plays on whatever fashionable to take the piss out of. Case in point: scientology pisstakes. They have a hard on for it, and the frequency and predictable ways that they mock it smacks more of doing it because it is fashionable to do it these days rather than ridiculing the actual specifics of it to make a point about why it could be considered a load of manipulative pyramid scheme bullshit instead of just a wacky belief system based around alien lifeforms and strange pregnancy rituals and psychobabble.

They've done two episodes about Scientology and they were both years ago.

As for you point about them focussing on liberal tolerance, the Democrat's have been in the White House for four years now so most of the big news events in America will be about that, just as during the Bush years most of the material was about far-right Republican news.

The programmes best years are behind it but it's still good after 16 seasons, The Simpsons became shit long before that.